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The Greatness of God in Zion

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.[a]

48 Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.[b]
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion,[c] in the far north,[d]
the city of the great king.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  2. Psalm 48:1 Literally “mountain of holiness”
  3. Psalm 48:2 Literally “the mountain of Zion”
  4. Psalm 48:2 Literally “far of north”; the word translated “north” could refer to Mount Zaphon